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It used to be funny to point out how fucking stupid Americans are
It ceased to be funny quite a lot time ago...
The problem is that everything has become a national spectacle even city-level elections, because both parties are grasping to make absolutely ANYTHING a distraction while they fuck us over constantly.
NYC things don't affect ANYONE ELSE. Maybe the surrounding counties, but that's it. Yet here we are with the President of the United States trying to steer the election in one city, and the nationwide media is gobbling it up like they haven't had dinner in decades because they make money from the advertising, and angry comments it creates across social media every time they say anything.
There's fairly specific reasons we were watching NYC's mayoral election though, that being their use as a barometer for progressive ideals' ability to win.
This right here. It's not isolated to NYC. It's a crack in the pavement of ossified ideas and outdated politics. If a more progressive platform works in one place, it could work in many more.
the fact that both the DNC and RNC fought this is incredibly telling of how big a deal this is.
NYC thinks absolutely do affect other people.
The congestion charge got me to stop driving to NYC and I live like 200 miles away.
Now I take the train which is much nicer.
Same with me and London. Congestion charge is evidently doing what it intended to
Sadly, NYC policy affects most of the rest of the state, and it reverberates to many other blue states.
Not that I'm a conservative, but it hurts the rural parts of the state and just doesn't make any sense.
NYC and its surrounding counties provide a disproportionate amount of revenue to the state compared to the rest of it. The rest of the state simply would be bankrupt if it weren't financed by the NYC area.
We're idiots with nukes. 🙄
We’re the equivalent of a chimp with a shotgun. Does it know what it’s doing? Absolutely not, but it’s still fucking terrifying and people are going to die.
The rest of the world has sympathy for many of you, but the overwhelming feeling is that we just want 'Murica to go away
We're tired of all the stupidity
To be frank fort a moment... Kentucky doesn't get any of the nukes
It will when some big exec says to Trump they need 10 square miles flattening for a new AI data centre and the quickest way is with a nuke